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Developing countries urgently need money -- and lots of it -- to address climate change. To tackle this tremendous challenge, the international community is looking to the newly established United Nations Green Climate Fund to be the primary chann...

Successful examples for the Green Climate Fund from around the world
UN climate watchers are eager to see what projects and programs the Green Climate Fund finances out of the starting gate. The implications of the initial project pipeline are big...

The Arctic is ground zero for climate disruption, and now it's under threat from Shell's plan to drill.
Shell’s drilling rigs are making their way from Seattle, past Fairbanks and Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to the Chukchi Sea -- one of the most ...

Unwilling to debate opponents like Senator Elizabeth Warren on the substance of trade deals, President Obama has reduced his push to get trade promotion authority to morally righteous declarations and to flying members of Congress around on Air Fo...

While President Obama's 2015 State of the Union speech highlighted his administration's progressive initiatives, a continued focus on environmentally disastrous trade deals undermined his strong rhetoric on climate action.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Friends of the Earth U.S. joined Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) on Capitol Hill today to support the introduction of the Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2013, which would establish a tax on financial transactions, popularly kn...

Science and social movements agree: Palm oil expansion is bad for people and bad for the planet
Just a few years ago, palm oil entered the spotlight as one of the best and brightest options for a “drop-in” biofuel feedstock (a type of...